2007 Recent Transactions - Advisory  |
| Announcement Date | Status | 2007 Transactions | Transaction Value (millions) | | Dec 19, 2007 | Closed | Advised Gerson Lehrman Group on its sale of an
approximately 25% equity stake to Silver Lake Partners
and associated debt refinancing | NA | | Dec 12, 2007 | Closed | Advised Publishing Group of America Inc. on its
sale to Bain Capital Ventures and Shamrock Capital
Growth Fund II, LP | NA | | Dec 3, 2007 | Closed | Advised Cengage Learning, formerly Thomson Learning,
on its acquisition of Houghton Mifflin College Division
| $750 | | Nov 29, 2007 | Closed | Advised E*Trade Financial Corp. on the $2.5 billion
investment led by Citadel Investment Group | $800 | | Nov 19, 2007 | Closed | Advised EdgeTrade, Inc. on its sale to Knight Capital
Group, Inc. | $60 | | Oct 30, 2007 | Closed | Advised Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. on its acquisition
of E-Z-EM, Inc | $186 | | Oct 22, 2007 | Closed | Advised Nuance Communications, Inc. on its acquisition
of Viecore, Inc. | NA | | Oct 1, 2007 | Closed | Advised AT&T, Inc. on its acquisition of Interwise,
Inc. | $121 | | Sep 20, 2007 | Closed | Advised Network General Corporation on its sale
to NetScout Systems, Inc. | $205 | | Sep 10, 2007 | Closed | Advised IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. on its acquisition
of Chatham Energy Partners, LLC | NA | | Sep 4, 2007 | Closed | Advised BlueLithium on its sale to Yahoo! Inc.
| $300 | | Aug 1, 2007 | Closed | Advised Tiffany & Co. on its sale of Little
Switzerland to NXP Corporation | NA | | Aug 1, 2007 | Closed | Advised Blackbaud, Inc. on its acquisition of eTapestry
| $25 | | Jul 25, 2007 | Closed | Advised VT Group plc on its joint venture with
BAE Systems plc to form BVT Surface Fleet Limited
| $1,600 | | Jul 17, 2007 | Closed | Advised Metromedia International Group, Inc. on
its sale to Salford Georgia and Compound Capital Limited
| $576 | | Jul 9, 2007 | Closed | Advised Sequa Corporation on its sale to The Carlyle
Group | $2,662 | | Jul 5, 2007 | Closed | Advised ARINC Incorporated on its sale to The Carlyle
Group | NA | | Jul 2, 2007 | Closed | Advised North Pittsburgh Systems, Inc. on its sale
to Consolidated Communications Holdings, Inc. | $345 | | Jun 29, 2007 | Closed | Advised TI Automotive on its sale to Oaktree Capital
Management LLC and Duquesne Capital Management LLC
| NA | | Jun 21, 2007 | Closed | Advised Ziff Davis Media Inc. on the sale of its
Enterprise Group assets to Insight Venture Partners
LLC | $150 | | May 29, 2007 | Closed | Advised LCC International, Inc. on its acquisition
of Wireless Facilities, Inc.'s US engineering business
| $39 | | May 14, 2007 | Closed | Advised eCollege.com on its sale of Datamark, its
enrollment marketing subsidiary, to an investor group
| $41 | | May 14, 2007 | Closed | Advised eCollege.com on its sale to Pearson Education,
Inc. | $504 | | May 11, 2007 | Closed | Advised Apax Partners on its acquisition of Thomson
Learning, the higher education, careers and library
reference assets of The Thomson Corporation | $7,750 | | Apr 30, 2007 | Closed | Advised International Securities Exchange (ISE)
on its sale to Eurex | $2,821 | | Apr 24, 2007 | Closed | Advised Information Services Group, Inc. on its
acquisition of TPI | $280 | | Apr 20, 2007 | Closed | Advised Interpool, Inc. on its sale to Fortress
Investment Group | $980 | | Apr 2, 2007 | Closed | Advised First Data Corp. on its sale to Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts | $27,032 | | Mar 28, 2007 | Closed | Advised Cerberus on its acquisition of Tower Automotive
Inc. out of Chapter 11 | $1,000 | | Mar 13, 2007 | Closed | Advised The Copley Press, Inc. on its sale of 9
publications in Ohio and Illinois to GateHouse Media,
Inc. | $380 | | Feb 22, 2007 | Closed | Advised Morningstar on its acquisition of Standard
& Poor's mutual fund data business | $55 | | Feb 11, 2007 | Closed | Advised Novelis on its sale to Hindalco | $5,767 | | Feb 8, 2007 | Closed | Advised TI Automotive Ltd on the sale of its Industrials
Group business | NA | | Feb 7, 2007 | Closed | Advised Aquila on its sale to Great Plains Energy
| $2,767 | | Jan 16, 2007 | Closed | Advised Blackbaud on its acquisitions of Target
Software and Target Analysis Group | $62 | | Jan 15, 2007 | Closed | Advised Smiths Group PLC on the sale of its Aerospace
division to GE | $4,812 | | Jan 4, 2007 | Closed | Advised IronPort Systems on its sale to Cisco Systems
| $830 |
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